Chapter 71. To amend section one of the Act of August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 71.— An Act To amend section one of the Act of August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes. February 15, 1917.[[S. 5014](/us/bill/64/s/5014).][[Public, No. 322](/us/pl/64/322).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Reclamation Act.Homestead, patents under.Vol. 37, p. 266, amended. That the proviso to section one of the Act of August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-five), entitled “An Act providing for patents on Reclamation entries, and for other Payment in full required of all sums due.purposes,” be amended to read as follows:
" “*Provided,* That no such patent or final water-right certificate shall issue until after the payment of all sums due the United States on account of such land or water right at the time of the submission of proof entitling the homestead or desert-land entryman to such patent or the purchaser to such final water-right certificate.” " Approved, February 15, 1917.